Wash-hanger



I. TRACH.

WASH HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED. NOV. 6, 1919.

1,338,266. Patented A n-27,1920.

I Joseph Fae/r UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH TEACH, OF BUCHANAN, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

WASH-HANGER.

Application filed November 6, 1919.

length may be extended laterally from the wall of a house or building when desired or moved to a position extending along close to said wall.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying draw-.

iugs, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Figure 1 of the drawings is side elevation of my improved clothes hanger showing it in its extended position on the wall of a building.

Fig. 2 is a face view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side view showing the device in its folded up position.

In the drawings I have indicated a portion of the wall of a house or other building at 1 and a window therein at 2, my improved device, being located adjacent the window. ll. base member 3 is secured by screws or other suitable means on the wall 1 and has fixed. thereto a block 4 having a horizontal aperture, the wall of which is slotted on one side as at 5. p

In this aperture is slidably mounted a bolt 6 having a flat widened extension 7 on the end thereof near the window 2, this extension having a transverse boring through which the diminished end of a main supporting pole 8 projects freely, this pole having a transverse bar 9 on its inner end. As shown clearly in Fig. 2 the block 4 is of less length than the base 3, the extension "7 projecting over the base at the end thereof nearest the window.

As shown clearly in Fig. 1 the extension 7 is spaced from the base 3 a distance equal to the thickness of the bar 9, so that the pole is supported solidly in a horizontal position by the engagement of the bar 9 between the extension and the face of the base.

Fixed to the outer end of pole 8 is a second cross-bar 10 in one end of which is jour- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1920.

Serial No. 336,047.

brackets 15 fixed to the wall 1 at a distance above the base 3 and ropes 16 are passed over. these pulleys and connect at one end to the. other end of cross-bar 10, uniting near their opposite ends in a common rope I? which passes under a pulley 18 mounted in the extension '7 and is secured to the opposite end of cross-bar 9 to that carrying the pulley 12. Branches such as 19 may extend from the ropes 16 to a collar 20 fixed on pole 8 between the ends thereof.

hen. the hanger is in use the pole S projects outwardly from the wall 1, the bar 9 engaging between. the extension 7 and the face of the base 3 as previously stated. The line 13 may be readily reached by a person standing in the window and the clothes hung thereon. lVhen not in use the device may be swung to an upright position as shown. in Fig. 3, the bolt 6 being moved laterally to the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, thereby freeing the bar 9 from the base 3 and permitting the pole to be swung to the vertical position, the bolt 6 making a quarter turn as will be apparent.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. A clothes hanger comprising a pole, a clothesline carried by said pole, a base adapted to be fixed on a suitable wall, said base having on its face a shortened projection provided with an aperture parallel to the face thereof, a bolt slidable in said aperture and having a flattened and widened extension projecting over the face of the base at the end of the said projection, said exten sion having a transverse aperture through which the said pole passes, and a cross-bar upon the inner end of the said pole of a thickness equal to the space between the said extension and the said base.

2. A clothes hanger comprising a pole, a clothesline carried by said pole, a base adapted to be fixed on a suitable wall, said base having on its face a shortened projection provided with an aperture parallel to the face thereof, a bolt slidable in said aperture and having a flattened and widened extension projecting over the face of the base at the end of the said projection, said extension having a transverse aperture through which the said pole passes, and a cross-bar upon the inner end of the said pole of a thickness equal to the space between the said extension and the said base, said cross-bar having a pulley mounted in one end over which the said clothesline is passed.

3. A clothes hanger comprising a pole, a base adapted to be fixed on a suitable wall, a block of less length than the said base fixed thereto, said block having an aperture parallel to the face of the base, a bolt slidable in said aperture and having a flattened and widened extension pro ecting over the face of the base at the end of the said block,

bars on opposite ends of said pole, the cross bar 011 the inner end being of a thickness corresponding to the space between the said extension and the said'base, apulley mounted on one end of each of said cross-bars, a clothesline looped around said pulleys, a pair of laterally spaced pulleys mounted in the said wall above the said base, a pulley mounted in the said extension, and ropes connected to the cross-bar on the outer end of the said pole and passing over the said laterally spaced pulleys and uniting in a common rope which passes under the pulley on the extension and connects to the other cross-bar.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature. V

JOSEPH TEACH. 

